Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition

Session

Session 8

08

24 Aug 2021, 15:30

Conveners

Session 8

• Leon Pickard
• Amanda Bacon (University of Pennsylvania)

Description

10+3 talks
3:00pm ET Start

39. Simulations of PMT and Track Reconstruction in Magnetic Field

Kishankumar Patel (The University of Winnipeg)

24/08/2021, 15:45

Physics Analysis

This summer, I am working on EMPHATIC (Experiment to Measure the Production of Hadrons At a Testbeam) project under Dr. Blair Jamieson supervision. EMPHATIC is a proposed experiment to measure hadron scattering and production cross sections for improved neutrino flux predictions, its aim is to provide more complete data to reduce the neutrino flux uncertainty measurements. In this project, my...

40. Black hole quasinormal mode spectroscopy

Ashley Chraya (IISER Mohali)

24/08/2021, 16:00

Theory

The study of the evolution of small perturbations in black hole spacetimes, which is surprisingly related to the scattering problems in quantum mechanics, has played a fundamental role in gravitational-wave astronomy. Characteristic modes of vibrations are ubiquitous in nature, and it is expected that these characteristic frequencies are also associated with black holes. Similar to how the...

38. In-Gas Laser Ablation Source (IGLAS) Development at McGill University

Minya Bai

24/08/2021, 16:15

Instrumentation/Hardware

The Ba-tagging technique will be an upgrade to the nEXO detector that will allow it to extract and identify Ba ions from double beta decay events to help eliminate all background events. The Ba-tagging group at McGill University have previously worked on the Laser Ablation Source (LAS) for ion extraction in vacuum. Currently, the group is making progress towards developing the In-Gas Laser...

42. Distinguishing signal from background for a direct measurement of antihydrogen’s Lamb shift

Abbygale Grace Swadling (University of Calgary Dep. of Phys. and Astronomy (CA))

24/08/2021, 16:30

Physics Analysis

It is predicted that after the Big Bang equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created, however the universe is dominated by matter and there is much less of its counterpart. Antihydrogen is created and analyzed by the ALPHA (Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus) collaboration at CERN to look for asymmetries by comparing its spectra with hydrogen’s. The Lamb shift is an...